Events

My Street Films brings you a variety of related events the contents of which will be regularly updated here, so keep following us. Besides special workshops and lectures on filmmaking, we are also preparing various meetings with leading filmmakers, presentations of the project at attractive city festivals and many other treats.

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Seminars

- Seminar of Jan Gogola Jr.: Gallery of Fictional Reality. Excursion into a land where reality becomes a stage and stage becomes reality. The stops of this mental walk are clips from films that outline the permeable border between reality and fiction.

April 20, 2017, Kino Art, Brno

- Master Class of Peter Kerekes and screening of “Velvet Terrorists”

May 15, 2017, Kino Světozor, Prague

- Seminar of Petr Marek: Truth and Fun. “I like uncertainty. A wild mixture of genres. A combination of live and stylized action. An interconnection of seriousness and idiocy. Good and bad acting. Using lo-fi technologies, a punk camera and sloppy editing as well as brilliantly composed images. I like to see real people experiencing artificial worlds in front of the camera. I love “being lost”: it helps me open up my thinking. I love both Karel Vachek and Ocean’s Eleven,” says director and musician Petr Marek whose seminar deals with stylization in documentary film and documentary elements in fiction film.

June 5, 2017, Kino Světozor, Prague

- Michal Kindernay, Zbyněk Baladrán, Adéla Babanová, Andrea Slováková: Film in Fine Arts and Experimental Space. Creative approaches in video designed for presentation in galleries and its specifics compared to films designed to be watched in cinemas. Films made by autonomous devices constructed by the artist, thus exploring the environment shot by the camera both through image and the way it is captured. Self-reflective works with precise style and short-length video essays with multiple layers of meaning. The work straddled between film and fine arts as well as various forms of film experimentation will be introduced through a discussion with visual artists and their work.

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Special events

With all competition films already pinned to the My Street online film map, all we have to do is announce the best ones and present them with their deserved awards! The award ceremony will be held in the small screening hall of Světozor Cinema and will be preceded by a screening of nominated films.

The winner will receive an invitation to the Open City Docs Fest in London in 2015 along with a screening of his or her film, the second awardee will get an invitation to Jihlava IDFF 2014 along with a screening as well and the third awardee will receive complete music rights for his or her future noncommercial film from the database of hudebnibanka.cz which will also provide help with music choice. Moreover, all winners will receive a year-long access to the database of 1000 documentary films at the DAFilms.com portal and two passes to Jihlava IDFF.

September 13 - Your Čerňák, Your Film – Make It!

Do you know the Černý Most housing estate inside out and can think of places that could be depicted in a short film? Register on email michaela@praha14kulturni.cz for the film workshop during which you will find a theme, write a script and make a film with the help of professionals! Your Čerňák, your film - make it!

The Stop Zevling festival has joined the My Street Films map of Prague to fill in the empty space of Prague 14 with two short documentaries! In cooperation with the organizers of My Street Films, the festival organizes a one-day film workshop tutored by young directors Apolena Rychlíková and Vladimír Turner held on Saturday, September 13 at the Plechárna Černý Most centre for free. The team work of two film groups will result in two short documentaries to enter the film map at www.mystreetfilms.cz. The screening of the documentaries, held on Saturday, September 20, will become part of the programme of the last edition of the Street for Art festival. The workshop participants need no technological equipment or previous filmmaking experience; all you have to do is register.

Lectures and Public Screenings

Sep. 20 - Different City Experience - My Street Films Public Screenings at Various Venues:

August 3, 2014, 6:00 pm, Liberál Café (Heřmanova 6, Prague 7)

- A practical introduction to film camera suitable for documentary filmmaking and clarification of its key functions
- Basic parameters of shots illustrated on photographs made during the workshop
- Camera in relation to a montage, or how to shoot a material that is fit for editing
- Basics of shooting methods + storyboard, or photo-storyboard
- Most common difficulties and mistakes
- Tripod not only as a tool, but also as a dramaturgical aid
- Tripod vs movement
- Rewriting the screenplay, including film clips
- Commented clips from films by Klusák and Remunda with focus on the camera technique employed in the scenes + discussion
- Note: The emphasis of the seminar will be mostly practical and all of the participants will have the possibility to try out a particular film technique

- Case study of the documentary portal, DAFilms.cz, which brings My Street Films to the Czech Republic.
- Presentation of the British version of My Street Films, including a film clip.
- Screening of the winning film at Jihlava IDFF 2013 – The Great Night by Petr Hátle, the author of the spot for My Street Films.